How can I get the Thumbnail from Youtube URL?

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NSURL *youTubeURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPwyVw_6vsQ&feature=youtu.be"]; // URL is a string which needs to be placed in @"" and close method call with ].
MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:youTubeURL];
imageSel = [player thumbnailImageAtTime:1.0 timeOption:MPMovieTimeOptionNearestKeyFrame];

I am using this code for getting thumbnail from the video and this return null value in the imagesel.can anybody help me to solve this problem I am using YouTube URL .when I am using this code for the video that is in the main bundle then it is working fine.

You do know that MPMoviePlayer cannot play youtube videos, right? — Richard J. Ross III, Oct 04 '12 at 13:07
@RichardJ.RossIII MPMoviePlayer play videos in my code i have done it from this link https://github.com/comonitos/youtube_video/downloads and it is working fine — Jaspreet Singh, Oct 04 '12 at 13:10

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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Do this:

Firstly extract videoID from Video URL Link.

Now refer this link for getting thumbnail of video.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Oct 04 '12 at 13:14

Paresh Navadiya

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 08 '12 at 10:19

each youtube link has 4 thumbnail

   http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/0.jpg
   http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/1.jpg
   http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/2.jpg
    http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/3.jpg

this code is very good for

for example i have this link:

       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPwyVw_6vsQ&feature=youtu.be

and the youtube video id is:

      HPwyVw_6vsQ

and generated thumbnail from this link is:

        http://img.youtube.com/vi/HPwyVw_6vsQ/1.jpg

this is very easy to use

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 22 '20 at 10:02

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if someone wants HQ image use this link

https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/maxresdefault.jpg

answered Dec 22 '20 at 10:02

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 04 '12 at 16:55

If you have a YouTube watch page URL, and you want to get the thumbnail URL, the "correct" way to do that is to use oEmbed:

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2009/10/oembed-support.html

That way you don't have to attempt to parse the video id out of the URL.

But... what you really should be doing is using a iframe embed to display videos in your web page (or UIWebView). The YouTube API Terms of Service covers the supported ways of accessing YouTube content:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms

How can I get the Thumbnail from Youtube URL?

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